Age: 10+

What You’ll Need:

• 500g cooking chocolate
• 1 tin Condensed Milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essense
• 1 cup of chopped almonds

Method:

Break up chocolate. Combine chocolate with condensed milk and vanilla essense in a saucepan. Place over another saucepan that is half filled with water. Heat the double saucepan and stir continuously as the mixture melts. Add the chopped almonds. Line a small slice tin with baking paper and pour in the fudge. Place in fridge until cool and then cut into bite sized pieces. Store in fridge.

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Age: 8+

What You’ll Need:

• 125g butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 3/4 cups of flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Method:

Beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until creamy and smooth. Sift in flour, baking soda and salt. Beat well. Roll mixture into a a long roll about 6cm wide and 30cm long. Wrap the roll in baking paper and place in the fridge for a minimum of two hours.

When ready – heat the oven to 200 degrees celcius.

Use a shape knife to slice cookies off the roll and place them evenly on a greased baking tray. Bake for 10 minutes.

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Ages: 8+

What You’ll Need:

• One tin of peach halves
• 1/4 of a cup of brown sugar
• 1/4 of a teaspoon of cinnamon
• 5 teaspoons of cornflakes
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• Vanilla ice cream

Method:

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celcius. Place peach halves with the cut side up in a baking dish. Pour peach juice into the bottom of the baking dish – not on top of the peaches.

Mix brown sugar and cinamon in a cup and sprinkle over the peaches. Place 1/2 a teaspoon of cornflakes on top of each peach. And top with a wee dot of butter.

Bake for 15 – 20 minutes. Serve with ice cream.

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Ages: 10+

What You’ll Need:

• 1 cup of tinned apricots
• 1 cup of tinned peaches
• 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 tablespoons of white sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of milk
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla

Method:

Place 3cm of water into a large roasting pan. Place the roasting pan in the oven and set it to bake at 180 degrees celcius. Drain the peaches and apricots and place in a shallow baking dish. Sprinkle the brown sugar over the fruit. Place eggs, white sugar and vanilla in a bowl and beat with a mixer. Pour the mixture over the top of the fruit. Set the baking dish into the roasting dish with the 3cm of water.

Bake for an hour.

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Ages: 2+

What You’ll Need:

• 1 cup dried apples
• 1/2 cup of dried coconut
• 1 cup dried apricots
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds
• 1/2 cup of dried mango
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• 1 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds
• 2 cups rolled oats
• Honey (optional)

Cut dried apples, apricots, mangos and cranberries into small pieces. Place chopped fruit into a large bowl. Combine with remaining ingredients. Mix gently.

Serve with yoghurt and a teaspoon of honey.

For Toddlers:
Help from a grown up required to chop fruit and measure ingredients. Your toddler will enjoy placing the ingredients in the bowl and combining the museli.

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Age: 10+

What You’ll Need:

• 1/2 cup of butter (loosely packed)
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of honey
• 5 cups rice bubbles

Method:

Place butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan bring to the boil and then cook on low for 7 minutes. Stir constantly to ensure mixture doesn’t burn. Place rice bubbles in a mixing bowl, and pour the honey mixture over them. Combine quickly. Press mixture into a well greased cake slice tin and cut while hot.

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Ages: 10+

Ingredients:

• 4 slices of toast bread
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons butter

Method: Whisk milk and eggs together and pour into a shallow dish. Soak bread in the mixture until soft. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a frying pan and carefully place bread in the pan. Cook for 2 minutes over a medium heat and then turn over and cook for a further 2 minutes.

Topping Suggestions: Sweetened yoghurt and fresh berries, or banana with maple syrup and bacon.

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Ages: 2+

What you’ll need:

• 1 mango
• 1 banana
• 1 cup of pineapple juice
• ½ cup of coconut milk (unsweetened)
• ½ cup of plain sweetened yoghurt
• ½ cup of ice

Method:
Peel and chop fruit into cubes. Place all ingredients into a blender and blend on high until smooth. Pour into tall glasses and serve.

For Toddlers:
Help from a grown up required to prepare ingredients. Toddler can place ingredients in the blender and blend.

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Ages: 2+

What you’ll need:

• Some dried fruit – Raisins, Currants, Sultanas or diced dried apricots
• Celery
• Peanut Butter

Method:
Cut washed celery into 5 inch segments. Fill the celery cavity by spooning in peanut butter. Place dried fruit on top of the peanut butter.

For Toddlers:
Help from a grown up required – washing and cutting the celery into segments, demonstrating how to spread the peanut butter and place the dried fruit. It’s a little messy but good fun for children 2 and up.

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Ages: 2+

What you’ll need:

• 1 cup frozen mixed berries
• 2 bananas
• 1 cup of soy milk
• 1/2 cup of vanilla ice cream

Method:
Peel and chop banana into cubes. Place all ingredients into a blender and blend on high until smooth. Pour into tall glasses and serve.

For Toddlers:
Help from a grown up required to prepare ingredients. Toddler can place ingredients in the blender and blend.

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